Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 97, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1977), pp. 441-459 (19 pages) Compared with classical Sanskrit the style of the Rāmāyaṇa is undeveloped, with very few figures of ...

“Do you want to clone your voice?” asked speech pathologist John Costello. I was sitting with him in his office at Boston Children’s Hospital, where for decades Costello has practiced his specialty: ...